There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.

Almost every difficulty you meet has some answer, even if it is slow, partial, or not the one you wanted. One does not, and it arrives for everybody without regard to how the rest of your affairs are arranged. Holding both facts at once is steadier than it sounds: nearly everything can be worked on, and one thing cannot.

Put your energy into the difficulties that have remedies, which is most of them. And let the one that does not quietly set your order of priority, so that the people you would want to have seen more of get some of this week rather than next year.